Author: John Berryman

A shallow lake, with many waterbirds, Especially egrets: I was showing Mother around, An extraordinary vivid dream Of Betty & […]

I met a junior—not so junior—and A-many others, who knew ‘him’ or ‘them’ Long ago, slightly, Whom I know. It […]

28 July Calmly, while sat up friendlies & made noise Delight fuller than he can ready sing Or studiously say, […]

My framework is broken, I am coming to an end, God send it soon. When I had most to say […]

As a kid I believed in democracy: I ‘saw no alternative’—teaching at The Big Place I ah Put it in […]

A hemorrhage of his left ear of Good Friday— So help me Jesus—then made funny too The other, further one. […]

Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need, Thoughtless I go out. Dawn. Have I my cig’s, My flaskie O, O […]

During the father’s walking—how he look Down by now in soft boards, Henry, pass And what he feel or no, […]

He yelled at me in Greek, My God! —It’s not his language And I’m no good at—his Aramaic, Was—I am […]

Henry’s pelt was put on sundry walls Where it did much resemble Henry and Them persons was delighted. Especially his […]